Does Penn Foster Online Information Literacy Course replace excelsior INL 102

[sterlingg]

does Penn Foster Online Information Literacy Course | Penn Foster College still transfer to excelsior and get credit for INL 102 Information Literacy?

[marquardt21]

Sorry, but in no longer does.

[jsd]

TCC's InfoLit class has gotten great reviews on this form in the past... $135 exam + $25 ProctorU

Information Literacy for Excelsior College - Tor College Credits

[futuremrsmlb]

does Penn Foster Online Information Literacy Course | Penn Foster College still transfer to excelsior and get credit for INL 102 Information Literacy?

Nope. It no longer fulfils the requirement for Info Lit and neither does the TCC exam mentioned. Before Kaplan I was enrolled at Excelsior and was told neither would work.

[jsd]

How long ago was that?

[futuremrsmlb]

How long ago was that?

December 2015

[sanantone]

Are they basically forcing students to take it at Excelsior? That's $510 for the upcoming academic year, and I've heard that the course is a waste of time.

[futuremrsmlb]

Are they basically forcing students to take it at Excelsior? That's $510 for the upcoming academic year, and I've heard that the course is a waste of time.

this is exactly the same thing I said. I asked my advisor at the time if there were specific sources she could recommend for transfer credit. Her reply was something along the lines of "send us a syllabus and we will let you know if it will be accepted." (avoiding my question lol)

Basically, it looks like students have to do their own homework on this and ask for approval before attempting to transfer for this course (or any).

EDIT: I was enrolled in BLS program and this was the case for that program. I have heard/read that other schools within EC will still accept these courses for transfer as INFO LIT (I THINK school of business may still accept PF's course)

[jsd]

Just wanted to followup on this, looks like you were given the wrong info futuremrsmlb. I got this back from Excelsior today about Tor College Credit's Info Lit course:

From: ANagle@excelsior.edu [mailto:ANagle@excelsior.edu] On Behalf Of admissions@excelsior.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: Tor College Credit/Information Literacy

Hello [jsd],

I apologize for the delay in communication. I followed up with one of our Application Review team members and this is what she had to say about satisfying the Information Literacy requirement:

"We have approved ENG 103: Information Literacy from Coopersmith as meeting the Information Literacy core requirement. The time frame is 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2018. If he completed course prior to 1/1/2013 but within the 5 year time limit we'd need a syllabus to be submitted & we'd forward to our Librarians for them to review."

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Sincerely,

Andrew Nagle
Admissions Specialist
Excelsior College
https://www.excelsior.edu/
(888) 647-2388 ext 2
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Fri 8am-6pm

[futuremrsmlb]

Just wanted to followup on this, looks like you were given the wrong info futuremrsmlb. I got this back from Excelsior today about Tor College Credit's Info Lit course:

Again, I think it depends on the degree program. Was this approval from the School of liberal arts?
If so, great!
I ended up not choosing EC, so perhaps good news for others!